Art History 102

Question 1

Pulpit

Answer 1

a raised platform

Question 2

Baptistery

Answer 2

bathing-place

Question 3

Bas Relief

Answer 3

a sculpture, carving, or molding in bas-relief

Question 4

Annunciation

Answer 4

announcement to the Virgin Mary of the Incarnation

Question 5

Visitation

Answer 5

The visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth

Question 6

Nativity

Answer 6

The birth of Jesus

Question 7

Icon

Answer 7

An image; a representation

Question 8

Altarpiece

Answer 8

A piece of artwork, such as a painting or carving

Question 9

Fresco

Answer 9

The art of painting on fresh, moist plaster with pigments dissolved in water

Question 10

Composition

Answer 10

The art or act of composing a musical or literary work

Question 11

Pictorial space

Answer 11

Relating to, characterized by, or composed of pictures

Question 12

Symmetry

Answer 12

Its the same on ether sides.

Question 13

Foreground

Answer 13

The part of a scene or picture that is nearest to and in front of the viewer

Question 14

Foreshortening

Answer 14

To shorten the lines of (an object) in a drawing or other representation

Question 15

Contrapposto

Answer 15

a curving or asymmetrical arrangement of the human figure with the shoulders, hips, and legs in different planes

Question 16

Chairosuro

Question 17

Composition

Answer 17

Is the placement or arrangement of visiual elements or ingredients of a work of art.

Question 18

Quatrefoil

Answer 18

An ornamental element compsed of four lobes radiating from the common center.

Question 19

Pictorial space

Answer 19

Arragenment of space on the picture plane.

Question 21

Tympanum

Answer 21

A semi circle space above the doors of a cathedral. Important and elabarate sculptural decaration are often earned into the Tympanum.

Question 22

Hierarchial scaling

Answer 22

Figures in the higher hierarchy who are larger then the less important figures.

For Exapmle: Celestial beings are the largest, then humans, than anmimals.